Fast, powerful and scalable analytics can provide many business benefits including getting more value from data, faster decision making, cost reduction, and developing new products and services. There are four main types of analytics: descriptive (what happened), diagnostic (why did it happen), predictive (what will happen), and prescriptive (what action should be taken). MariaDB AX is a big data analytics solution that provides real-time analytics capabilities, built-in analytics functions, and easier management and scaling on commodity hardware at a lower cost than other solutions. It allows for both transactional and analytical processing using a single SQL interface.